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crazyquilted

crazyquilted

English

Adjective

crazyquilted (comparative more crazyquilted, superlative most crazyquilted)

  1. Formed like a crazyquilt, by a seemingly random assortment of things.
    • 1973, Samuel E Wallace, Total Institutions, page 34:
      A few prisoners end up with bodies crazyquilted with motley scars and skin patches, but to these men, in the context of a prison economy, it seems well worth it.
    • 1983, Dennis Jackson, Irish Renaissance Annual - Volume 3, page 15:
      That his crazyquilted literary career paralleled his frustrated life compounds the pathetic situation, yet many a reader of Irish literature must have breathed a sigh of relief when it became apparent that the intricacies and vagaries of At Swim were abandoned for the comic fantasies of the later novels.
    • 2011, Jay Albrecht, Angelic Asides, page 17:
      I cleared my sight of browns, found gayer colors on our crazyquilted ground.